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A thread yesterday had a variety of people asking if the unemployment is lower because the youth are well cared for.

Please click through and read for additional context. Families are helping. Parents age and are not a long-term plan except for the most unusually wealthy.

Please remember: China is nominally communist. Functionally, they are capitalists with an usual side of excess infrastructure spending. A strong central government doesn't make a country communist.

Their land use rules... that makes them communist-ish. But that's a small part of a far larger picture.

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[–] iopq@latte.isnot.coffee 0 points 1 year ago

He wasn't forced to work, he just wanted some spending money above what good parents have him. What's wrong with that?

It's not like scooping ice cream requires special skills